Use of Norinco 223

It goes 'bang' consistently. I've run ~1500 rounds of both the yellow box stuff, as well as the spam can ammo through my Swiss Arms with one, maybe two ammo related problems. Your mileage will vary from rifle to rifle though.
 
I and one other person I shot with on a Carbine Course experienced extreme yaw due to inconsistent bullet diameter. I think one guy measured a box and found 8-12 out of 20 were under.222, It goes bang every time but the ammo is garbage, and as painful as it is to pay more, I won't be getting more of it.

Issues with this ammo were discussed at length in this thread here: http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?852639-Elongated-holes-at-close-range-Why&highlight=elongated

This Target was shot at about 10-15m with Norinco yellow box 5.56

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Steve, it apparently sucks to be you, but those are some awesome silhouettes. No doubt somebody else will take that ammo off your hands. What rifles were you shooting that it didn't work in?

BTW, Canadian Tire on Macleod Trail in Calgary has bulk AE (packed loose in the box) at $379/1000.
 
Steve Janes said:
I and one other person I shot with on a Carbine Course experienced extreme yaw due to inconsistent bullet diameter. I think one guy measured a box and found 8-12 out of 20 were under.222, It goes bang every time but the ammo is garbage, and as painful as it is to pay more, I won't be getting more of it.

Issues with this ammo were discussed at length in this thread here: http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?852639-Elongated-holes-at-close-range-Why&highlight=elongated

This Target was shot at about 10-15m with Norinco yellow box 5.56
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Just finished readying that whole thread. Pretty interesting. It seems like the worst case is that some of the norc .223 can wear the internals of the gun.
That being said, at current prices (for me) I save $168/1000 rounds. So after a few thousand rounds I could buy a new upper. All depends how how badly the ammo wears the gun I guess.
 
Being brass cased and copper jacketed it shouldn't be any harder on the rifle than anything else unless I'm missing something. Maybe Steve got a bad batch cos beside the one other shooter at that course nobody else has had that problem.
 
I dunno anything about being harder on the rifle but if you read the other thread I linked too, another person completely unrelated to the course measured 20 or so bullets and found 8-12 to have undersized projectiles, some as bad as .221, most about .222 diameter (If I remember right). The ammo is garbage. It's not just my 2 separate crates from 2 different stores, or the other guy on the course. It is very unpredictable what will cause it to happen but it has nothing to do with the rifles. Many guys with MUCH more experience than I have weighed in on this and it is the chinese low quality ammo not the guns.
 
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